ABACUS
October 1993

181 Edgemont Ave.
Elmwood CT, 06110

19 pp., $3.00

Three long poems by Jefferson
Hansen that mix day-to-day autobiography (about, for
instance, a summer job); wordplay (e.g., "an intensity
of tennis shoes"); reflections on language, epistemology,
etc.; politics (like what Tonto would have done about
Saddam)... a bird's cry that can't be borne in words;
skepticism that "begins by realizing/ boundaries,
say, between/ skin and feathers, language and music."--Bob Grumman